| Zhornik, Daria (2025): Discourse organization in Northern Mansi. Dissertation, LMU München: Faculty for Languages and Literatures |
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Abstract
The dissertation is dedicated to researching the discourse structure in Northern Mansi (Finno-Ugric < Uralic). The research includes factors that influence the behavior of the following linguistic categories in Northern Mansi: voice and agreement (subject agreement vs. object agreement vs. passive voice), referential form of the agent and patient participants (e.g. full noun phrase vs. personal pronoun vs. zero-reference and others), discourse particles ta and ti. These categories were researched based on a data set of Northern Mansi narratives gathered in the 1930s. The dataset was annotated for a number of parameters, and a simple statistical analysis based on the decision tree method was applied. The work also includes the results of this analysis, limitations of the approach and possible extensions of this research.
| Item Type: | Theses (Dissertation, LMU Munich) |
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| Keywords: | discourse studies, Finno-Ugric, Uralic, Mansi, grammatical voice, discourse particles |
| Subjects: | 400 Language 400 Language > 490 Other languages |
| Faculties: | Faculty for Languages and Literatures |
| Language: | English |
| Date of oral examination: | 4. November 2025 |
| 1. Referee: | Shagal, Ksenia |
| MD5 Checksum of the PDF-file: | fd5dbed79666f4afd2bfea098abf0795 |
| Signature of the printed copy: | 0001/UMC 31635 |
| ID Code: | 36053 |
| Deposited On: | 11. Dec 2025 14:13 |
| Last Modified: | 11. Dec 2025 14:13 |
